Deborah Margaret Lavin, FRSA (born 22 September 1939), is a South African academic and historian, resident in the United Kingdom for most of her career.

Biography

Lavin was born on 22 September 1939. She attended Rhodes University, South Africa and

Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formall ...

, Oxford, graduating in 1961. Lavin has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand as well as

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and was a Senior Associate of

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economic ...

.Martin, Susan TREVS A Celebration of 40 years of Trevelyan College Durham. In 1980 she relocated to Durham where she was co-director of the Research Institute for the Study of Change and a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, as well as Principal of

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from 1979 to 1995. She was President of the Howlands Trust and from 1995 to 1997 was Principal-elect of the new College to be developed at the Howlands Farm, which eventually became

Josephine Butler College Josephine Butler College is a college at Durham University. It is located at the Howlands Farm site next to residences of Stephenson College, Durham, Stephenson College. In the centre of the college is a grass-covered hill, called "The Mound." It ...

Bibliography

*''South African Memories: Scraps of History'', Ad. Donker, 1979 (co-author) *''From Empire to International Commonwealth: A Biography of

Lionel Curtis Lionel George Curtis CH (1872–1955) was a British official and author. He advocated British Empire Federalism and, late in life, a world state. His ideas concerning dyarchy were important in the development of the Government of India Ac ...

'', Oxford, 1995 *''The Condominium Remembered:Proceedings of the Durham Sudan Historical Records Conference 1982'', University of Durham, Centre for Middle Easte, 1993

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lavin, Deborah 1939 births South African emigrants to the United Kingdom 20th-century South African historians Living people Principals of Trevelyan College Academics of Durham University Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Rhodes University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand Academics of Queen's University Belfast Historians of South Africa